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CHALLENGE
Today, the electric grid is the largest supply chain in the world with no warehouse. The electricity we use is generated moments before we use it. To
keep the lights on, we have built a system able to meet the highest levels of
demand, which occur only a few hours per year. It is hard to get enough electricity into certain areas, like big cities, leading to price spikes and threats of
blackouts and brownouts. In addition, we cant control when the sun shines
or when the wind blows, making it hard to operate the grid when wind
and solar resources are significant contributors. As worldwide consumption is increasing and grid infrastructure is aging, we need a new solution.
CAPACITY TODAY
PEAK
DEMAND
CAPACITY
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STORAGE
AVERAGE DEMAND
SOLUTION
Ambri is commercializing the Liquid Metal Batterya novel grid-scale
electricity storage technology. The Liquid Metal Battery will fundamentally
change the way power grids are operated on a global basis. It will provide
numerous benefits to multiple stakeholders across the electric system
value chainutilities; independent power producers; transmission operators; and end-users. It will help integrate renewable resources like wind and
solar, creating a cleaner electricity infrastructure; it will offset the need to
build additional transmission, generation and distribution assets, which will
lower electricity costs; it will enable users to reduce their electricity bills;
and it will improve reliability in the face of an aging grid.
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Mg electrode
CHARGING
DISCHARGING
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DISCHARGED STATE
AMBRI CORE
TM
200 kWh
16 packs
TM
400 kWh
2 COREs
TM
(AESS)
500 kW / 2 MWh
5 Ambri Energy PODs integrated with grid tied
power electronics
PHIL GIUDICE
CEO and President
GREG THOMPSON
DON SADOWAY
DAVID BRADWELL
KRISTIN BRIEF
HARI NAYAR
SHAZAD BUTT
Vice President of
Manufacturing & Engineering
Director of Systems
Engineering
Since Ambri was founded in 2010, the company has grown to more than
40 employees. We have assembled a talented group that is hard-working, results-oriented, creative and passionate about solving some of the
worlds toughest energy challenges. While you can find many of our engineers and scientists at Ambri until the late hours of the evening, its not
all work. We enjoy daily whole company lunches, many of our staff are
committed athletes and participate in local intramural sports teams, and
every six months we drop everything to put our all into a company service
day at a local non-profit organization.
FINANCIAL BACKING
In May 2012, Ambri raised a $15 million Series B round of venture capital financing. We welcomed Khosla Ventures as the lead investor and our
previous Series A investors Bill Gates and the French energy company
Total fully participated.
ORIGINS
Ambris Liquid Metal Battery was invented in the
lab of Dr. Donald Sadoway, a professor at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, the
Liquid Metal Battery Project built upon Professor
Sadoways 40 years of experience working with
extreme electrochemical processes, ranging from
aluminum smelting, to molten oxide electrolysis
for extracting oxygen from lunar regolith, to lithium polymer batteries. The research on campus
has been supported by the Department of Energys
ARPA-E program, the French energy company,
Total, the Deshpande Center, and the Chesonis
Family Foundation. David Bradwell (now Senior Vice
President of Commercialization & Chief Technology
Officer of Ambri) played an instrumental role in
advancing the technology while he completed an
M.Eng degree, a Ph.D degree, and a one-year postdoctoral fellowship. In 2010, Bradwell and Sadoway
co-founded Ambri with the goal of commercializing
the technology.
RECOGNITION
In October 2013, Ambri was recognized as a winner of the Global Cleantech 100 and awarded as the Rising Star of the Year.
Earlier in 2013, the MIT Technology Review selected Ambri as a TR50 winnerone of 50 Disruptive Companies of 2013.
Ambris co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor Dr. Donald Sadoway championed Ambris message to the millions who watch
The Colbert Report in October 2012 and to the 1.5 million who have watched his TED talk delivered in March 2012. Ambri has
received positive press coverage from a range of top-tier publications and media outlets.